In In the early early days of paid accounts, they started to feel the crunch of new users and the old servers just weren't handling everything well, so they needed to purchase new, bigger ones. $10,000 was determined to be a sufficient amount of money, so they sold 100 permanent accounts for $100 on a first-come first-serve basis. Being the irresponsible college student, I took them up on the offer. Since I still use LJ over four years later, I suppose my investment has just started paying off.
Chief Architect...of LiveJournal. Presumably he won't have much to do with MT except where the code bases overlap. And what does that mean? Unfortunately, as a company, those who own it are still in charge. If push comes to shove, they can boot Brad whenever they feel the need. That's my problem here - supposedly Brad will keep control, but it's all ceremonial power at this point.
No, actually, I do. Follow the "my new account" link from the profile I linked to above, or the "web site" I have listed under my/. account. I created a new account when I went permanant, as it seemed like a good time for a few other changes as well.
I was one of the first 100 people to get the perm accounts when they were offered oh-so-long ago.
Okay, being a five-year user of LJ (user number 1112, suckers) and perm-account holder, I've got a considerable stake in all this. It makes me nervous. I'm not familiar enough with Six Apart and their treatment of MT to be confident in their ability to maintain the status quo around LJ-land. I'm afraid that the business will do what all businesses do, and eventually change from being "for the people" to being "for the profit."
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have put time and effort into their own little portion of the Internet, and I'm afraid that with one motion Brad's damaged their stock. The thing is - this is something Brad's been putting his life into for around six years now. If anything he's got the most to lose. (Ignoring the nice chunck of change he jsut pocketed.) Hopefully he walked into this with due diligence and maintains some official control over where LJ will head.
I suppose that's the one question I haven't seen answered - from what Brad said, it seems like he's now just an employee. Any official power he now has is ceremonial. So I hope he made the right choice.
The Jews were looking for a KING to rescue them from the hardships of outside rule. What they got was a person who could not be described as an earthly king, and was therefore not what they expected/demanded. The gentiles were not so steeped in the "our new king is coming!" culture, so the barrier to belief was not so high.
How many times are there verifiably flawed scientific (in particular, medical) studies where the data fit together perfectly but didn't match the presuppositions, so was considered garbage? People like to get their hopes up and do not like to be let down...
Since Dolo has never mentioned putting me into a lake of fire, I think I'll stick with my belief.
But, since you have no proof of this...
I believe he's secretly plotting your painful demise. Now who's better, God who tells you up-front about all this or Dolo who's working his bad deeds in secret?
I love how every time some hard medical problem comes up people start going off on stem-cell research, as if enough effort put forth in that one field will solve every health problem ever. I've got news for you: stem-cell research may help diabetes. It may help cancer. It may help AIDS. The thing is, it likely won't help all those diseases. Don't use the reduced amount of research taking place as a scapegoat for your disease du jour. The reason we have all these hard diseases to crack is all the easy ones have bene taken care of. Such is the nature of the beast - we've got tough problems to solve, and no magic bullet will fix them all.
Are you sure HL2 won't run? This is just me being uninformed, probably - but unless there's a software limit, I think your CPU should be able to do it. My Athlon XP 1800+ (a 1533 MH CPU) does a good-enough job of it. Of course, you'll need a decent video card, but my GeForce 4 does the trick.
380? Have you even considered doing the math here?
3.8 GHz is equal to 3800 MHz. So that's 38 times the clock rate for a 74x performance gain.
Unless there's a secret 38 GHz P4 out there that I didn't know about...damn overclockers.
And making the pipe deeper is exactly what you DON'T want. A shallow pipeline is good because it makes the penalty for errant branch prediction. A long pipeline means you have to throw away a LOT fo work when the processor guesses wrong. You may have fourteen instructions that are executing, but since they were predicated on the code branching a certain way all the work must be re-done. That's why people complained about the longer pipeline when the P4 was initially introduced - it allowed the clock rate to be cranked, but such things are always a tradeoff.
So, what's the bandwidth required by an "uncompressed" HDTV signal? Here's a hint: It's more than capable of saturating a gigabit connection if it's a full (1080i) resolution video.
If you get good fans, you can have a quite PC. What happens is people get the cheapest possible fans, or one that goes totally overkill, with no regard to noise output.
The loudest fan in my PC is on the video card; even that I could replace and make much more quiet.
I'd imagine there's a sizeable, non-rotating core that would contain elevators and all utilities. Think a dozen of those single spinning floors that're "not too bad." It's just a matter of scale here, with the same solution repeated for each floor.
Matthew Scala, a reader of Freedom to Tinker, has responded with the 9 line MoleSter, written in Perl.
There have been discussions recently about potential employers doing a Google search on job applicants, so the way I see it Mr. Scala's either very smart or very stupid.
Very stupid, for the fact a lot of searches will put "Matthew Scala" and "molester" together on the same page.
Very smart, because this tactic will bury any evidence of his pedophilia under a pile of MoleSter links and pages.
Some states (I know Illinois is an example) use an 2D barcode. Think of lots of little black and white 'pixels' arranged in a rectangle on the back of the card. The system is favored over magnetic strips because it's cheaper to make (just part of the printing process) and more resilient as magnets won't harm them.
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In In the early early days of paid accounts, they started to feel the crunch of new users and the old servers just weren't handling everything well, so they needed to purchase new, bigger ones. $10,000 was determined to be a sufficient amount of money, so they sold 100 permanent accounts for $100 on a first-come first-serve basis. Being the irresponsible college student, I took them up on the offer. Since I still use LJ over four years later, I suppose my investment has just started paying off.
Chief Architect...of LiveJournal. Presumably he won't have much to do with MT except where the code bases overlap. And what does that mean? Unfortunately, as a company, those who own it are still in charge. If push comes to shove, they can boot Brad whenever they feel the need. That's my problem here - supposedly Brad will keep control, but it's all ceremonial power at this point.
No, actually, I do. Follow the "my new account" link from the profile I linked to above, or the "web site" I have listed under my /. account. I created a new account when I went permanant, as it seemed like a good time for a few other changes as well.
I was one of the first 100 people to get the perm accounts when they were offered oh-so-long ago.
Actually, it said you will *have* to agree to the new policies in order to log in. The new stuff is non-optional.
Okay, being a five-year user of LJ (user number 1112, suckers) and perm-account holder, I've got a considerable stake in all this. It makes me nervous. I'm not familiar enough with Six Apart and their treatment of MT to be confident in their ability to maintain the status quo around LJ-land. I'm afraid that the business will do what all businesses do, and eventually change from being "for the people" to being "for the profit."
There are literally hundreds of thousands of people who have put time and effort into their own little portion of the Internet, and I'm afraid that with one motion Brad's damaged their stock. The thing is - this is something Brad's been putting his life into for around six years now. If anything he's got the most to lose. (Ignoring the nice chunck of change he jsut pocketed.) Hopefully he walked into this with due diligence and maintains some official control over where LJ will head.
I suppose that's the one question I haven't seen answered - from what Brad said, it seems like he's now just an employee. Any official power he now has is ceremonial. So I hope he made the right choice.
Nobody said they weren't being bought, at least nobody official.
Re: 3, improving upon the other answer:
The Jews were looking for a KING to rescue them from the hardships of outside rule. What they got was a person who could not be described as an earthly king, and was therefore not what they expected/demanded. The gentiles were not so steeped in the "our new king is coming!" culture, so the barrier to belief was not so high.
How many times are there verifiably flawed scientific (in particular, medical) studies where the data fit together perfectly but didn't match the presuppositions, so was considered garbage? People like to get their hopes up and do not like to be let down...
Since Dolo has never mentioned putting me into a lake of fire, I think I'll stick with my belief.
But, since you have no proof of this...
I believe he's secretly plotting your painful demise. Now who's better, God who tells you up-front about all this or Dolo who's working his bad deeds in secret?
I love how every time some hard medical problem comes up people start going off on stem-cell research, as if enough effort put forth in that one field will solve every health problem ever. I've got news for you: stem-cell research may help diabetes. It may help cancer. It may help AIDS. The thing is, it likely won't help all those diseases. Don't use the reduced amount of research taking place as a scapegoat for your disease du jour. The reason we have all these hard diseases to crack is all the easy ones have bene taken care of. Such is the nature of the beast - we've got tough problems to solve, and no magic bullet will fix them all.
I actually did try that; but it didn't work. Oh well.
I get an HTTP 400 error when using the Windows version of curl. Odd.
What was your source for this so I could try alternate methods?
Yet you were wanting him to show proof that a 386 is 10x as fast as P90, showing a startling lack of comprehension.
Any proof he would likely give would result in your further confusion.
Yeah; the video card will very likely hold you back. It's pretty easy to get a GF4-era card inexpensively now, though.
Are you sure HL2 won't run? This is just me being uninformed, probably - but unless there's a software limit, I think your CPU should be able to do it. My Athlon XP 1800+ (a 1533 MH CPU) does a good-enough job of it. Of course, you'll need a decent video card, but my GeForce 4 does the trick.
1/10 th as fast. Please comprehend what you're reading before you pick nits.
380? Have you even considered doing the math here?
3.8 GHz is equal to 3800 MHz. So that's 38 times the clock rate for a 74x performance gain.
Unless there's a secret 38 GHz P4 out there that I didn't know about...damn overclockers.
And making the pipe deeper is exactly what you DON'T want. A shallow pipeline is good because it makes the penalty for errant branch prediction. A long pipeline means you have to throw away a LOT fo work when the processor guesses wrong. You may have fourteen instructions that are executing, but since they were predicated on the code branching a certain way all the work must be re-done. That's why people complained about the longer pipeline when the P4 was initially introduced - it allowed the clock rate to be cranked, but such things are always a tradeoff.
Much less time than a few hours. Don't forget that the supercenters sell groceries; I can easily purchase over 100 items at a time.
So, what's the bandwidth required by an "uncompressed" HDTV signal? Here's a hint: It's more than capable of saturating a gigabit connection if it's a full (1080i) resolution video.
You'd be correct in some retarded fashion, if HDTV weren't already a compressed format.
If you get good fans, you can have a quite PC. What happens is people get the cheapest possible fans, or one that goes totally overkill, with no regard to noise output.
The loudest fan in my PC is on the video card; even that I could replace and make much more quiet.
I'd imagine there's a sizeable, non-rotating core that would contain elevators and all utilities. Think a dozen of those single spinning floors that're "not too bad." It's just a matter of scale here, with the same solution repeated for each floor.
Matthew Scala, a reader of Freedom to Tinker, has responded with the 9 line MoleSter, written in Perl.
There have been discussions recently about potential employers doing a Google search on job applicants, so the way I see it Mr. Scala's either very smart or very stupid.
Very stupid, for the fact a lot of searches will put "Matthew Scala" and "molester" together on the same page.
Very smart, because this tactic will bury any evidence of his pedophilia under a pile of MoleSter links and pages.
=P
When I hear the term "Civil War Widow" it means to me a woman whose husband was lost due to the war - and, as such, was made a widow by the war.
This woman born in 1906 doesn't count, by that standard.
Some states (I know Illinois is an example) use an 2D barcode. Think of lots of little black and white 'pixels' arranged in a rectangle on the back of the card. The system is favored over magnetic strips because it's cheaper to make (just part of the printing process) and more resilient as magnets won't harm them.
So, if I were to say something like "all people who have trouble getting dates are computer geeks." It somehow makes it factual and not a stereotype?
Just becuase you're swapping order with a stereotype doesn't make it any less of one.